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Planning moves ahead for El Dorado Hills parks project

The El Dorado Hills Community Services District will provide materials and volunteers will supply labor to complete three “Renewing California Parks” projects this spring.

Sacramento PD: Man arrested in sexual assault of woman, 70

Sacramento police have arrested a 29-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting woman in her 70s. According to an online police log on Thursday, Jesus Gutierrez is an acquaintance of the woman. He allegedly assaulted her in her home on Alan Shepard Street, the report stated.

Stockton missing man found OK

Officials located Jesus Valencia, 32, Tuesday morning in good condition. He had been missing since Monday evening.

Few protesters show at Sundance for Prop. 8 movie

Despite rumored anti-gay protests, a Sundance Film Festival documentary about the Mormon church’s role in a 2008 California political battle over gay marriage played to a friendly audience on Sunday in Park City. Only about two dozen gay marriage activists chanted – “Separate, church from 8″ – in a parking lot outside the premiere of “8: The Mormon Proposition.” The film by Reed Cowan, a former Utah Mormon, contends that the locally based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was the driving force behind Proposition 8. The ballot initiative reversed an earlier court decision that legalized gay marriage

Ask Sacto911: 4 convicted in scheme using religious cover

Q: What happened to the people who were in a right-wing Christian group who were accused years ago of illegally selling car insurance? – Anonymous, Sacramento A: Eight Northern Californians were indicted in 2005 on charges of money laundering and selling illegal car insurance after the FBI and the state’s insurance regulator investigated the operations of a self-styled right-wing Christian organization, The Bee reported. According to a spokeswoman for the U.S.

Sacto911: West Sac PD arrests man in nightclub slaying

West Sacramento police have arrested a 30-year-old Cameron Park resident who they allege killed a man at a nightclub last fall, according to authorities. Jesus Ventura Solis was booked today into the Yolo County jail on suspicion of murder, according to a Police Department news release. He is being held without bail

Mother in mourning says her 16-year-old son ‘had plans’

Francisco Jesus Medina-Tomas was a respectful teenager who loved football and entertained ideas of becoming a construction engineer, his mother said this week. “He was always a good son in my house. He respected everyone,” Juana Jose Tomas said of her 16-year-old son, who was gunned down in a south Sacramento apartment complex Saturday night.

Possible witnesses clam up, say Sacramento County homicide cops

Homicide detectives say a lack of cooperation by possible witnesses is hampering their search for those who shot and killed a 16-year-old boy in south Sacramento last weekend. Francisco Jesus Medina-Tomas was gunned down on the sidewalk of the Bowling Green Village apartment complex on 49th Avenue as he waited for a friend Saturday night, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department